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A 47-year-old man who operated a Tavares business has been convicted of Medicaid fraud, operating an unlicensed health-care clinic and identity theft, Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi announced. Randall C. Ritch pleaded guilty to four felony counts, Bondi's office said. The DeLand resident was sentenced to 15 years' probation and ordered to pay more than $83,000 in restitution to the state's Medicaid program. Bondi's Medicaid Fraud Control Unit arrested Ritch in June 2013 after an investigation into wrongdoing.

An appeals court has tossed a death sentence against a man convicted of killing a teen in a Daytona Beach robbery in 1992 because the state attorney at the time used biblical references, news-journalonline.com is reporting. Then State Attorney John Tanner went too far during a sentencing hearing for Anthony Farina when he used such references as urging the "implementation of God's law" with the death penalty, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta said. The court ordered a new sentencing for Farina, now 40. Read the full story at news-journalonline.com .

A former missionary for New Tribes Mission was sentenced today in Orlando federal court to 58 years for a child-sex exploitation case . Warren Scott Kennell, who worked for Sanford-based New Tribes Mission, was sentenced for producing child pornography of girls in the Amazon. Agents began investigating Kennell, who lived in New Jersey, after receiving a tip that he posted pictures on a website used by child pornographers. Law officers stopped Kennell at Orlando International Airport in May when he arrived from a flight that originated in Brazil, according to records.

A federal judge in Orlando on Thursday sentenced two former executives of a now-defunct Longwood investment brokerage to nine years in prison for their role in a currency trading scheme that bilked investors out of more than $17 million. Chief Judge Anne C. Conway sentenced Philip Leon of Altamonte Springs and John G. Wilkins of Chuluota on charges of wire fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud in connection with the scheme by Altamont Global Partners LLC and its affiliated funds.

Two Port Orange men who beat a Volusia County woman to death with a hammer and also beat her daughter into semiconsciousness were sentenced Thursday to three life terms in prison. Bradley Suntich and Tyler McClain, both 27, took a plea deal that spared them from a possible death sentence, the Volusia County State Attorney's Office said. Suntich and McClain killed Laura Hill, 53, and beat her daughter Angela Hill, now 27, at their Port Orange home on June 9, 2011. McClain had dated Angela Hill.

A man who robbed a bank via the drive-through and then crashed into Sanford police patrol cars during the getaway was sentenced to seven years in federal prison Monday. Robert Gordon Shaw and Matthew Anthony Cosimini each previously pleaded guilty in Orlando federal court, admitting they held up a Regions Bank with a fake bomb in April. Cosimini was sentenced in November to 6 1/2 years in prison for his role in the heist. Court records show Shaw was sentenced to prison and three years probation Monday.

A 66-year-old Tavares man was sentenced this month to 10 years in federal prison for possession of child pornography that will be tacked onto a 10-year term he's already serving for smuggling cocaine into the U.S. from a Costa Rica cruise, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office. The child porn Mark James Williams had on his computer was discovered after his 2009 conviction on the drug-trafficking charge along with failing to register as a sex offender. "Accordingly, Williams was charged and convicted of having possessed that child pornography, which Williams had attempted to delete from his computer on the day before he left on the cruise for Costa Rica," according to a statement from Department of Justice spokesman William Daniels.

A man whose parenting plan was detailed during a graphic child-sex trial in Orlando federal court this year will soon learn how much prison time he will serve for his crimes. Jonathan Adleta, a 26-year-old former Marine officer who once lived in Central Florida, was accused of sexually abusing his children, as well as a girlfriend's daughter. He was convicted of two child-sex charges during his weeklong trial in September and will be sentenced Jan. 6. He faces up to life in prison.

A man accused of killing a motorist while fleeing police on the Fourth of July was convicted Wednesday in State Attorney Jeff Ashton's first trial as a prosecutor since the Casey Anthony case. The jury deliberated about four hours before returning a guilty verdict on charges of first-degree murder, attempted second-degree murder and firing from a vehicle in the case against Gangapersad Ramroop. After the verdict, Circuit Judge Anthony Johnson sentenced Ramroop to life in prison on the murder charges.

A 38-year-old man accused of fatally shooting another man with a stolen gun in Orange County this summer was sentenced to more than a decade in prison on Thursday after taking a plea deal. Edward Vincent Hayes was arrested on second-degree murder and other charges, accused of killing Shane Thompson, 32, on the roadside near 35th Street and Nashville Avenue on July 28. On Thursday, Hayes pleaded to a lesser offense: manslaughter. He was sentenced to 17 years in prison under the terms of his plea deal, avoiding a 25-year minimum mandatory prison sentence.